The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-07-20
HERE AND THERE.

The Now York Graphic has discovered
a dog in Tennessee that eats tacks. We
believe that this puts the whole question
of dog tacks in new light
The State Teachers Association at Clear
field, closed its sessions on Friday last.
The attendance was large. Scranton was
selected for the meeting next year.
The badly decomposed body of a man
was found on a rock in the Allegheny
river, at Phillipston, on Monday. The
face was decomposed beyond recognition.
The clothing consisted of a white aud fan.
mel shirt and pair of corduroy pants.
The pockets contained nothing but two
knives.-[Clarion Jacksonian.
Will II. Allen, the eldest son of Senator
Allen, of Warren, has been appointed TO a
position on the staff of General WILEY.
with the rank of Sergeant Major. Ser
geant Allen filled the position of adiutant
at the Military Academy of Oxford, Mary
land, and is thoroughly educated in all
that pertains to military affairs. We con-
gratulate Gen. Wiley on this selection
LVenango Citizen.
Old Dan Rice has reached Cincinnati
with his Texas bride. OF the contest be-
fore winning his wife he SAYS ~ had TO
fight three counties, Gonzales, Lavaca and
Fayette. People said, what, marry a
clownY and every species of inventions
and stories were got up against me. 1t
didn't make any difference. | captured
the prize. My wife is tickled to death.
She never Travelled before and everything
is quite new to her. But her new hus-
bapd is quite old"
Miss Rose L. Cleveland, the Presidents
sister, writes this good advice to our girls /:
"Stand up for America, wherever you are
Don't initiate any foreign STYLES or man
ners. If in the depths of your good, true,
country-loving hearts you are compelled
to admit that your country has a fault. as
every great nation has, why, go to work
to first conceal and then cure that fault;
and let it be your glory that, as American
girls, it is your mission to make every
thing American so good and so beautiful
that not long hence it shall be more fash
ionable to be very American than very
anything else; even very English"
The London Court Journal gives the
following graphic history of the life and
career of Buffalo Bill who is doing Lon
don town in company with his bowling
band of savages; "Hon. w. f. Cody
buffalo BID was a close companion of a
man named Boone, who discovered Ken
lucky in 1869. Mr.. Cody married grand
daughter of distinguished gentleman,
known as Sitting Bullfrog. Cody was
twice governor of Chicago and was at one
tiPfe mayor of the Arkansas Legislature.
observed in the Confederate army, in the
command of Gen. Butler, who so gallant
ly defended New Orleans against the
threatened invasion of the Federal Gen.
Longstreet. After the war Mr.. Cody went
to congress from the province of Detroit
and introduced a measure for the relief of
the citizens of Buffalo, which gained for
him the name of Buffalo Bill. He has
contributed largely to the Atlantic Month
ly, a newspaper edited by Mark Twain
and Uncle Tom Cabin, a man who is
mainly noted for his negro dialect sketch
es. Mr.. Cody has ranch of many acres
in st. Louis, where he keeps large lot of
Indians and ponies constantly on hand"